The 60-year-old is a veteran of the Army National Guard and a former high school teacher who coached his football team to its first state championship.
Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate for the White House, setting the scene for a historic election that has been completely upended by Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of the race.
He served 12 years in Congress representing a conservative, mostly rural southern Minnesota district – credentials that could be a drawcard for independents and moderate Democrats, and could help offset Harris background as Californian city-slicker. He has a no-nonsense style, which has played well on the airwaves in recent days as he ramped up his attacks on J.D. Vance and the MAGA movement, describing Trump’s VP choice as “weird and creepy” – language the Harris campaign has since embraced.
Until Biden dropped out of the race, Trump and his Republicans were feeling highly confident about their chances in November, and emboldened by the former president’s near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin in Pennsylvania last month.However, polls now put Harris and Trump neck and neck, and Trump himself appears to be struggling with the new dynamic. The former president ignited a firestorm last week by attacking Harris’ racial identity.
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